Reset: The Unauthorized Guide to Video Games

Reset: The Unauthorized Guide to Video Games

Documentary 2021

Available on Tubi

VICE News correspondent Dexter Thomas explores the video games that created the global phenomenon of gaming.

Documentary 2021

MA15+

Starring Dexter Thomas

EPISODE 1

Finish Him: A History Of Fighting Games

Dexter learns what makes the fighting game community so unique among other gamer groups; Dexter battles an FGC legend and talks to two up-and-comers looking to change the game.

21 min · 27 Aug 2021 MA15+
EPISODE 2

Preservation Or Emulation

Dexter unearths a lost successor to NBA Jam and plays it for the first time in 30 years; he meets the people dedicated to preserving video games and gaming culture.

21 min · 27 Aug 2021 M
EPISODE 3

War Games 1: How The Pentagon Games

The secret history of the relationship between the US military and the video game industry; Dexter tries a virtual reality treatment for veterans experiencing PTSD.

21 min · 27 Aug 2021 M
EPISODE 4

War Games 2: Recruiting An Army Of Fun

Investigates how the US Army use video games to recruit new soldiers; Dexter trains with the army eSports team at Fort Knox.

21 min · 27 Aug 2021 M
EPISODE 5

Fandom Vs Marketing: That Game Chose You

Dexter explores the rise of the `gamer bro' in the community and how Black fans of The Sims changed the game for everyone.

20 min · 27 Aug 2021 MA15+
EPISODE 6

Regulate This Or Regulate That

Dexter explores the history of regulation in gaming, including everything from Pong to Mortal Kombat.

21 min · 27 Aug 2021 MA15+

Dexter Thomas

Host
Michelle R. Carney

Producer

About

Reset: The Unauthorized Guide to Video Games

DOCUMENTARY

VICE News correspondent Dexter Thomas explores the video games that created the global phenomenon of gaming.

Information

Studio: Vice
Released: 2021
Rated: MA15+

Languages

Original Audio: English
Audio and Subtitles